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offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

offsite link Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
2023/02/27 19:00:02Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of

offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by

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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

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offsite link The Blob Has Sunk to New Depths in Its Quest to Destroy Educational Freedom Thu Feb 06, 2025 19:00 | Randall Hardy
The Blob has sunk to new depths in its quest to destroy educational freedom. No wonder, says Randall Hardy. It's only the right to withdraw children from the state system that restrains its worst indoctrinating tendencies.
The post The Blob Has Sunk to New Depths in Its Quest to Destroy Educational Freedom appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Lego Can Be Anti-LGBT, Says Science Museum Thu Feb 06, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Lego can be anti-LGBT, the Science Museum has said. As part of its 'Seeing Things Queerly' tour showcasing "stories of queer communities", Lego bricks are said to reinforce the idea that heterosexuality "is the norm".
The post Lego Can Be Anti-LGBT, Says Science Museum appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Trump Peace Plan for Ukraine Leaked?: Ceasefire by Easter, Territory Ceded and No NATO Membership Thu Feb 06, 2025 15:48 | Will Jones
A document reported by Ukrainian media to be Trump's 'Peace Plan for Ukraine' has been leaked and includes a ceasefire by Easter, the ceding of land to Russia and no NATO membership.
The post ‘Trump Peace Plan for Ukraine Leaked’: Ceasefire by Easter, Territory Ceded and No NATO Membership appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Birbalsingh Blasts Phillipson: ?You Don?t Know Your Own Bill? Thu Feb 06, 2025 13:35 | Will Jones
Katharine Birbalsingh, the head of one of Britain's best state schools, has written an excoriating letter to Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson after a meeting where Phillipson exposed her ignorance of her own bill.
The post Birbalsingh Blasts Phillipson: “You Don’t Know Your Own Bill” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Germans Underestimate Number of Asylum Seekers in Germany, Study Finds Thu Feb 06, 2025 11:00 | Noah Carl
A new study shows that Germans substantially underestimate the number of asylum seekers in Germany. This contradicts the Left-wing narrative according to which people oppose immigration because they're misinformed.
The post Germans Underestimate Number of Asylum Seekers in Germany, Study Finds appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday March 27, 2009 - 18:41 by Shell to Sea   text 4 comments (last - monday march 30, 2009 - 18:19)   image 5 images
A letter was handed in to the Norwegian Ambassador to Ireland at the Norwegian Embassy on Molesorth Street in Dublin yesterday. Norway has a large stake in the disputed and controversial Corrib gas scheme, despite the state company StatoilHydro, having a supposed commitment to ethcial behaviour.
The letter was written by Maura's husband, Naoise, and he was accompanied by their daughter and supporters from various political backgrounds and a number of well wishers. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday March 27, 2009 - 14:59 by Cailan O'Connell
Twenty-Eight senior cycle students from around the country have come together to make a difference on child labour. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday March 26, 2009 - 16:22 by Tara Burke
A proposal by Southside Travellers Action Group (STAG),to drop the site from the 5 halting sites and 6 group housing schemes planned in the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Traveller Accommodation Programme was defeated in a vote – of 20 to seven by county councillors last week. The accommodation plan adopted by the councillors will run from 2009 to 2013.

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national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday March 25, 2009 - 11:16 by pat c   text 14 comments (last - saturday march 28, 2009 - 21:28)
The Dublin City Post Primary branch of the Teachers Union of Ireland has called for the resignation of David Begg and has passed a motion of no confidence in the ICTU Executive Council. ... read full story / add a comment
Portrait of Biran Cowen, 2009, anonymours
dublin / arts and media Wednesday March 25, 2009 - 10:14 by Walter Goren   text 57 comments (last - friday april 03, 2009 - 03:53)   image 10 images   video 1 video file
Last Saturday a man added his own original artwork to the walls of the National Gallery's portrait collection. He placed his 'Portait of Brian Cowen' on the wall next to a work depicting Maeve Binchy. It hung for forty minutes, before being removed. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism Tuesday March 24, 2009 - 18:12 by Final Nail Party   text 8 comments (last - sunday april 25, 2010 - 17:56)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
Exclusive pictures and footage from the head office of Irish Nationwide Building Society this morning, where Chief Executive, Michael Fingleton, was deciding how to spend the 1,000,000 euro bonus paid to him AFTER the hastily agreed government bank guarantee scheme was put in place last year. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday March 24, 2009 - 14:52 by Bazooka Joe   text 2 comments (last - wednesday april 29, 2009 - 08:26)   image 1 image
Chinese Communist Police on patrol in Tibetan community following attacks on police and other Communist Government agents by Buddhist monks. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday March 24, 2009 - 13:52 by Ciaron   text 2 comments (last - wednesday may 06, 2009 - 01:12)
As we marked the 6th. anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, we remembered the 1 million Iraqi dead. 2 million exiled, 3 million internally displaced, the multitude of wounded, the 5,000 coalition troops killed and 30,000+ permanently wounded - used as cannon fodder in the plunder and pillage. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 23, 2009 - 15:19 by 1 of imc   text 4 comments (last - tuesday march 24, 2009 - 16:54)
Indymedia Ireland and DCTV are collaborating on facilitating popular coverage from around the country on the events of M30 (should there indeed be any). ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 23, 2009 - 15:11 by 1 of imc
Indymedia Ireland and DCTV are collaborating on facilitating popular coverage from around the country on the events of M30 (should there indeed be any). ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 23, 2009 - 12:35 by Tomas Ashe   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 26, 2009 - 16:59)
“There was absolutely no change in the government’s position.”

An unpublished interview with Sir John Blelloch, a member of MI5 who had been seconded to the NIO as a Deputy Secretary at the time of the 1980 and 1981 hunger strikes, has come into the possession of the Bobby Sands Trust. The interview was conducted at the British Ministry of Defence in late September 1986 [where Blelloch was Permanent Under Secretary] by the author of ‘Biting At The Grave’, Padraig O’Malley, professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

What is important about the interview is that it represents an insight into the psyche of the British at crucial periods in the hunger strikes, particularly at the time of mediation attempts by others, including the Irish Commission for Justice and Peace [ICJP]. ... read full story / add a comment
Peace vigil at Shannon airport for victims of TORTURE
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday March 22, 2009 - 17:30 by Shannonwatch   text 11 comments (last - sunday march 29, 2009 - 17:31)   image 7 images
A Peace Forum was held at the Park Inn hotel at Shannon airport on saturday 21 March in solidarity the victims of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, on the 6 aniversary of the start of the Iraq war.
Contributers included peace activists from Leipsiz in Germany, whose local airport is also being used to refuel US military planes and chartered troop carriers. We also had peace collegues from Derry, Galway, Cork, Westmeath, Kildare and even some from Dublin.
Meanwhile there were at least three OMNI air chartered troop carriers at the airport transporting hundreds of armed US troops to Iraq and Afghanistan. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday March 21, 2009 - 20:16 by Contaminated Crow
A quiet week: a cremarorium, a mast, a windfarm and a sand-pit ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday March 20, 2009 - 21:41 by Joanne   text 8 comments (last - wednesday march 25, 2009 - 11:53)   image 14 images   1 attached file
St Patricks Day saw Shell to Sea activists from around Ireland descend on Dublin for a day of protest against the Corrib Gas Project. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / eu Friday March 20, 2009 - 18:49 by Paula Geraghty   image 1 image
Leading a group of dairy farmers from all over Ireland in a protest/occupation of the EU Commission's offices in Dawson Street, the President of ICMSA, Jackie Cahill, said that the dairy policy being operated by the EU has actually reduced Europe's to producing milk below the cost of production and left farmers with no income at precisely the same time as they are having to re-pay loans taken out to comply with the massive demands made by EU Nitrates Regulations. Mr Cahill said that the EU dairy policy was now inflicting long term, structural damage on Ireland's dairy industry and the wider agri-food sector so vital in any co-ordinated attempt to re-build our exporting sector.

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national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday March 20, 2009 - 16:45 by Michael Gallagher   text 6 comments (last - wednesday november 03, 2010 - 02:16)   image 8 images
Protest number 7 during the Advisory Council meeting at the Deregulation Office in Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, by the taxi group, Taxi Drivers For Change.
They are hoping to see a countrywide one day stoppage of the taxi service on April 1st to highlight their declining incomes and other negative effects of deregulation on their industry.

www.taxidriversforchange.com ... read full story / add a comment
Down at the National Archives
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday March 19, 2009 - 19:45 by Paula Geraghty   text 1 comment (last - friday march 20, 2009 - 17:14)   image 5 images
Over 13,000 Clerical Officers, Staff Officers and Departmental Grades who are members of the country’s largest Civil Service Trade Union took part in a one hour lunchtime protest picket of Government Offices across the country today, Thursday 19th March 2009. Pickets were placed on all Government Offices between 1.00 and 2.00 p.m. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday March 18, 2009 - 23:48 by Paula Geraghty   text 2 comments (last - sunday march 29, 2009 - 04:45)   image 10 images
Unoccupied Minds was an eclectic and spectacular event held on16th March at Vicar St as a fundraising gig for Irish Medical Aid for Palestine & Irish Anti-War Movement. The venue was packed out with an equally diverse audience, a very healthy sign. ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Wednesday March 18, 2009 - 10:57 by Chris Gilligan   text 8 comments (last - monday march 30, 2009 - 22:14)
Operation Gull is a joint operation between the police in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and the UK Borders and Immigration Agency (BIA). Under the guise of Operation Gull the police and BIA have been blatantly racially profiling visitors to Northern Ireland, and a large number of, most black African, people have been detained and deported as part of Operation Gull. Chris Gilligan provides an eye-witness account of Operation Gull in action. ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Tuesday March 17, 2009 - 15:59 by Blacbloc   text 6 comments (last - wednesday april 29, 2009 - 08:08)
This information from a reliable source has yet to be confirmed in print but Youthreach pupils, teachers and co-ordinators are growing increasingly concerned that a VEC Education Officer from one of the county VECs is calling for their closure as a cost cutting exercise. More information is to follow but this threat is something that a lot of people ought to sit up and take seriously because of the knock-on consequences such a move is likely to have.
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